When I go to certain websites where it's important for me to know that I'm connected securely, certain browsers will say that the site failed the authenticity check. Firefox won't say anything, but ...

I thought it would be fun to play a sound when connecting to a network of some sort (wireless or otherwise), kind of like the dial-up sounds of yesteryear.
EDIT: Clarification: when connecting to the ...

I've got a Telit GM862-GPS module, which is a GPRS modem with a serial interface and uses the standard Hayes AT command set (with some extensions). What I'd like to do is to be able to connect this up ...

I'm trying to find a way to safely shutdown a network interface, i.e. without disturbing any processes. For this I need to find out what processes are currently using that interface. Tools like ss, ...

I am running a VM with Debian as the guest OS (I can choose another distro). It has nginx running along with some other software.
Some of the software tries to make outgoing connections (for example ...

I am trying to achieve something similar to this:
http://superuser.com/questions/67659/linux-share-keyboard-over-network
The difference is that I need the remote keyboard to be usable separate from ...

As the title really. I've actually got two scenarios to apply this:
Multiseat Desktop: two network connections both with internet gateways and two accounts doing bandwidth-intensive tasks on each. I ...

I have an always-on machine running Debian/Squeeze with a couple of ethernet ports (it's doing various serverish jobs, including DHCP) and a LAN on each.
eth0 is on 192.168.7.* and has access to the ...

When I try to use a raid as root, my system panics.
I want to read the kernel output right before the panic, but can't scroll up.
After Googling a bit, I wanted to try netconsole.
but I get no output ...

I have a Linksys router and I've noticed that when I look for connected PC's on the router, the name of my computer and MAC address of the wireless device appears.
However, I've noticed that for some ...

How can I configure pfsense so it will NAT servers so they can be accessed outside of the company? I tried to play around with the NAT settings, but didn't get anywhere. I want to be able to access ...

I have a sheevaplug with debian 5.0..internet was always working fine until today. I have a bunch of pcs connected via wireless to my router and internet works fine. From today though my debian won't ...

I'm using a Lenny (Debian 5) for remotely controlled PC's (around 100 PC's) which will be pinging to my apache server. I'm developing a patch twice in a week to keep updated with the latest versions ...

I have two partly-dead laptops. The first will not run X, and the second has some sort of problem with the monitor. I am not interested in repairing either of them, but since they both have firewire ...

How does /etc/hosts get created on RHEL 5.5? It's not owned by any RPM and if deleted, it doesn't reappear on reboot, so apparently it's not a service created it. Does anaconda create it by default ...

I made a quick search and found a doc that showed me a way to setup ad-hoc. Only problem is that I need this to work with my phone (WP7) and I'm not able to set a static IP on the phone so I need the ...

I have set up a Ubuntu server, that I want to use as a router for my local office.
The problem is, that I want to make 2 VPN connections, to remote branches, and then I want to route all traffic to ...

I've recently reinstalled CentOS onto a computer of mine. I have OpenSSH Server on it now, as did I before I reinstalled the operating system.
Here's the difference: Before, SSH started without even ...